1,010 pound bench press

[Hedgehog]

Mimnaugh and Mike: Both excellent points.

Mike: If you get a lift, you get a lift IMO. Nobody should have to be a "bigger man" and ask for it to be redded. It's just bad judging and intimidation.

But a lifter should never have to do what Mike Miller did, ask for his record to be removed. Although it was very classy of him.

-Hedge

[OneManGang]

Of cource,those of us who actually compete in powerlifting couldnt care less what THE ONE MAN GANG THINKS.We care what the judges and then the magazines say.When you become the Diety that rules over powerlifting,perhaps we might give to cents what you think.

Of course the shirt cult totally disregards the outside world. But from those of us who live our lives in the real world, no man has ever lifted 1,010lbs. Well, I lifted 4,000lbs with a forklift during a job in between semesters...

[Heywood]

Anytime a big time meet is run,they need sponsors.The only sponsors in powerlifting,or the only consistant sponsors,are the gear makers.Inzer and Titan single handidly have kept many meets afloat by providing the promoters free gear to sell at their meets.They have litterally paid for many lifters to travel to meets and sponsor the world teams and pay for much of the expense,not to mention that they sponsor individual guys with gear.They are  what keeps this sport going.

The AAU was far from perfect, but they sponsored the meets.  Powerlifters wanted to create their own rules, so broke away.  Now the guys who manufacture the bedsheets sponsor the meets.  There's some irony in that.

Anyway, the athletes make up their own rules in these orgs.  Yeah, those 700+ benchers with the shirts are still LEGIT VERY STRONG.  It's just that most cannot do a LEGIT 700 lb. bench. 

"Credit" is given when earned.

[Mr. Cortisol]

LOL @ "shirt cult".

[Livewire]

what is the absolutely honest world record for bench press with NO SHIRT?